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Amazon demands 30% share of ad revenue from TV networks’ apps (www.broadbandtvnews.com)

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Amazon demands 30% share of ad revenue from TV networks’ apps::Australia’s free-to-air broadcasters are up in arms after Amazon demanded a 30% slice of any advertising revenue that passes through its FireTV devices. Financial Review said networks Seven, Nine, Ten and SBS had accused the parcels to showbiz company of a “cash grab” and “rent-seeking”. Amazon has set new terms of services that would require…

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FireTV was ever alive?

I got one years ago and it was borderline unusable even from day one. They've always been these cheap, nasty, HDMI sticks that freeze and lag at the slightest hint of you wanting to actually use them to watch anything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The home application is TERRIBLE on Fire TV. It took three generations of the Fire TV stick before one of them was powerful enough to load that bloated nonsense they call an interface.

Edit: I meant interface, not internet.